LA is in the subtropics latitude, which means that the 4 seasons don't exist. Instead there is the wet season (spring, summer) and the dry season (autumn, winter). So because we are coming to the mid-ending of the dry season, that's when most of the wildfires hit, as the soil is at its driest.

[–] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Instead there is the wet season (spring, summer)

Having spent 30 years in socal, uh, not quite.

December-March are by far the rainiest months in LA. Of the ~14" of rain LA gets a year, it gets ~12" of that rain in the winter months

Edit: source

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

yeah i guess because its subtropic its kind of shifted, tho in a weirder way than i thought. thank you for the on the ground account

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

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